The day started out on a hot and lazy Friday morning, everyone in the Team Chaotix headquarters was doing some important stuff in the living room of the building.
Ray the Flying Squirrel was jamming and snapping his fingers to some loud music he's listening to on his headphones.
Espio the Chameleon was tuning his beloved banjo strings and played any catchy tune that came to his head to help calm his mind.
Charmy the Bee was playing with some toy monster trucks, making them run over a Amy Rose toy repeatedly as he was having the time of his life doing so as he cheered and laughed when the head of the toy would pop off.
Mighty the Armadillo himself was talking on the phone with Honey the Cat, a cat girl that he has a crush on and happens to be Sonic's sister-friend.
Truly they were all doing something important at the moment.
Who are these wacky characters, you may ask? This gang is known as Team Chaotix, well known for being detectives and causing mischief while on a case. They're kinda the detectives the world deserves, but not the ones it need right now. All of them have good hearts and are willing to help the Blur Blue himself, Sonic the Hedgehog, when he needs it.
Soon came the leader of the gang of detectives, Vector the Crocodile, to the living room who came rushing out of his office door, half dressed up fancy at the moment.
"Quick! I need everybody's attention! This is a detective emergency! Stop whatever you're doing!" Vector shouted at his gang as everybody stopped doing their activities.
Everyone looked at Vector, as Ray took off his headphones and spoke up. "What do you need Vector?" Ray asked, looking at the crocodile.
"I need to know which pair of pants goes with this shirt I'm wearing!" Vector shouted, holding tow pair of pants in his hands.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the leader of the gang and he's not wearing any pants at the moment. (Not that he usually does anyway.)
"Seriously you guys! I need help! I got a blind date later tonight and I wanna look HOT!" Vector shouted, explaining his problem.
"Hot date! Yeah yeah yeah!" Everyone chanted, except Espio.
"Both pants look really nice. They both look really expenses." Mighty said, looking at the pants Vector is holding. "I wish I had nice things, but instead I have two fishes. Two expensive fishes." He said sadly.
Espio nodded his head, as he put down his banjo and walked up to the green crocodile, "Look Vector, a woman doesn't care on how a guy is dressed on the first date. Only that you pay attention to her." Espio giving his own dating advice to his leader.
"And how would you know that?" Vector barked, with an unconvinced look.
Espio then put his head down in sadness. "*Sigh*...I don't." Espio said, walking away.
Charmy then flew up to Vector, "Just remember, girls like it when you act like real jerks to them. Works for me all the time." Charmy proudly stated.
"That's a lie, I'm so lonely." Charmy quickly sadly confessed.
Vector quickly ran to Mighty, "Mighty, I need your help!" He said, shaking Mighty uncontrollable.
"Why me?" Mighty wondered as Vector kept shaking him.
"Because you're the only one in Team Chaotix that's in a relationship with somebody! So tell me what to do!" Vector yelled.
Mighty frown at Vector. "Yeah because you and the gang force a date between me and Honey for Valentine's day." He stated.
"But the both of you ended up loving each other at the end." Charmy teased.
Mighty blushed hard and didn't respond as he looked away from the young bee with a frown on his face.
"Aw shoot! You're right Mighty. I'm only a Casanova when I help people with their love life and not mine!" Vector panicked.
"I say, you should blackmail her and force her to go out with you." Ray suggest.
Vector's face turning red in anger at everyone's advice, "Look this is getting me nowhere, I haven't had a date in five years okay! Five years! It's been too long!" Vector shouted at his gang.
"Well Vector who is the lucky lady that's going out with you tonight?" Ray asked.
Vector gave a romantic sigh and looked up at the ceiling in a heavenly state, "My blind date is name Molly. I tell ya, we been speaking to each other on the computer non stop ever since the dating site set us up, saying that me and Molly are 85% compatible with each other."
"I betcha five bucks that Molly will ditch Vector when she sees him." Charmy whisper into Espio's ears.
Just as Vector kept on dreaming about his blind date, the phone of the headquarters started ringing, making the crocodile stop daydreaming.
Ray walked up to the ringing phone and answered it, "Hello, Team Chaotix detective agency. How can we help you?" Ray answered and began writing down something on a piece of paper.
"Yes. Okay. We're on it! We'll meet ya there!" Ray said, as he hang up the phone. "We got a case you guys." Ray cheerfully said to his friends.
"No no no no no." Vector complained. "Of all of the days, why today with my blind date Molly?" Vector whined, stomping on the ground.
"Cheer up Vector, the pay is good from what the client told me." Ray said, trying make Vector feel better.
"That's great! Jobs haven't been showing up recently and we really need the money to pay off next month's rent." Mighty said, smiling at Ray.
"Speaking of the job, who called us and where is the job at?" Espio asked.
"It was some dude, said that his boss wants us to help. The guy told me to meet them in a place called Armstone City." Ray answered.
"Hey isn't that the place where Honey enter that fighting tournament a while back?" Charmy said.
"I wonder who wants business with us at Armstone City?" Espio said, calming to himself.
Mighty glance at Ray, "Ray, did the man in the phone give you the address to where in Armstone City to meet?"
"Sure thing, I wrote down the address on this paper." Ray handing over the paper to Espio.
Vector stood up from the ground and looked at his team mates, "Everyone settle up! We're all going to work on this case together!" Vector said, heading towards the exit of their headquarters.
"Why?" Mighty asked, as he and the rest of the gang gather up.
"The case will be resolved faster if we all work together." Vector stated, putting his hand on the door knob.
"Quick! To the Vector Mobile!" Vector shouted running out the door.
"Yeah!" both Charmy and Ray joined Vector on the run.
Mighty was confused at Vector's word, "But we don't have a vehicle." Mighty said, scratching his head.
"Trust me Mighty, I keep telling Vector that but he won't pay attention to me." Espio said to his armadillo friend, as they both headed out to the exit.
Armstone City
It took Team Chaotix a few hours to get to Armstone City. They manage to get a ride from a truck driver, who was also heading to Armstone City, delivering some shipment. When they arrived at Armstone City, the truck driver drop them off at a park in the city.
Since then, the gang were heading to their case on foot as they admire the beauty of Armstone City. Seeing such things like people riding their cars, bikes, and taxis. People eating inside and outside of restaurants, enjoying their time hanging out with their friends and love ones.
The gang finally manage to reach their destination thanks to a few direction that some of the people told them. When reaching their spot, they saw a large red building with a sign that says "AM2" on top of the front door of the building.
"Well this is the spot." Ray said, looking at the address on his piece of paper.
"Wow, who ever this boss is, must really be rich with money and power." Mighty said, impressed with the tall red building.
Espio put a hand on his chin, "The really question is why would a rich client call for our help. We usually don't get rich clients calling us." He said.
"Who cares! We'll probably get a lot of money if we do the case they're offering us." Charmy said.
"Well then let's hurry up. The sooner we can get the case done. The sooner I can get ready for my blind date later tonight." Vector said, as the rest began to walk to the doors of the building.
The gang stopped dead in their track when a man in a black suit stopped them from proceeding onward to the building.
"Halt! State your name and business here." The man in the black suit said to Vector.
"We're Team Chaotix and we're here because your boss requested our help." Vector said as he and gang nodded.
The man in black looked at his clipboard and nodded back at Vector, "Yes, it seems that you're on the list to meet with the boss. Please come right in." The man said, opening the door for Team Chaotix.
Upon entering the building, the gang were amazed by the decor of the building, having a fancy water fountain and statues. The lady at the front desk was inform by the man in black that Vector and the gang were to meet with their boss. The lady smiled headed towards the gang.
"Please, right this away gentlemen and follow me." The lady said, leading the gang of boys to a elevator. "Take the elevator. It will take you to the top floor where our boss is waiting for arrival."
At this, the gang enter in the elevator one by one and Espio pressed the button that took them to the top floor. While reaching the top floor. The whole gang couldn't help but bob their heads to the catchy elevator music that was playing, even Espio himself was digging it.
The door of the elevator open when they reached the top floor, exited out, and began walking through a red hallway of the building. As they venture forth in the building, they stumble upon another man in black, guarding a large red door with heart shape door knobs.
The man quickly turned his head to look at Team Chaotix heading his way, "I have been told that you have business with our boss." The man in black said.
"Yes, we recieve a call that your boss needs our help." Espio answer.
"Very well, proceed and enter the boss' room. Try not to make a mess." The man said, grabbing the heart shape door knob and open the door as the gang enter in.
When entering the room of the building. The gang were in a big shock by what was in front of them. Sitting on a fancy desk was a human female who was busy doing some paperwork on her work desk and was too busy working to notice Team Chaotix walking in.
What was more shocking is that the human female looked almost exactly like their friend, Honey the Cat, having the same red puffy dress, black pigtails hairstyle, red high heel boots, and red gloves as the their cat friend. The gang were to shock to saying anything until Charmy flew to Mighty and whisper in his ear.
"Dude, this human girl almost looks like your girlfriend, Honey." Charmy whisper to Mighty.
"Wow." Mighty said, seeing the shocking resembles between the human and his crush, Honey the Cat.
"Maybe she's a fan of Honey's dress." Ray assuming about the human girl's outfit. "After all, Honey did became quite famous after the "Fighting Viper" tournament."
Vector step forward and coughed before saying anything, "Hello there ma'am." He said out loud to gain the human woman's attention.
The red dress woman heard Vector's call and lifted her head up and saw the whole gang of Team Chaotix in front of her.
The woman smiled as she let go of her pen that she was using for her paperwork and got up from her desk to greet Vector and the gang.
"Why you must be Team Chaotix, am I right?" She smiled at the group of boys.
"Yes ma'am, we got a call that you need our assistance for a issue you have." Espio said, stepping in.
"Yes I do!" The human girl responded cutely. "Allow me to introduce myself, I'm-"
The human girl stopped talking when she laid her eyes on Mighty, who looked weirded out by the human girl's odd look.
"What?" Mighty asked the human girl, "Do I have something on my face?"
The human gasp out really loud, quickly ran to Mighty, and placed her hands on Mighty's shoulder and looked at his eyes with excitement in her eyes.
"Is your name happen to be Mighty the Armadillo!?" She asked excitedly.
Everybody in Team Chaotix looked oddly at both Mighty and the human. What was going on everybody's mind was how does this human girl know about Mighty.
"Y-Yeah?" Mighty responded, feeling a bit creepy by the human girl's look in her eyes. "I'm Mighty the Armadillo."
At Mighty's response, the human girl squeal in delight and jumped in joy cutely. Mighty and the rest were confused on why she was so happy meeting him.
Once the human girl calm down, she looked back at Mighty with an even bigger smile than before, still creeping the armadillo.
"Oh my gosh! You really are here! You're the guy that my sweet little Honey loves! It's so nice to meet you!" She said happily with her face blushing and gave Mighty a quick hug.
Mighty was shocked hearing his crush's name as well as everybody else in Team Chaotix.
"Wait? You know Honey!? Honey the Cat!?" Mighty asked.
"Yeah, I'm her close childhood friend and mentor." The woman said.
"Mentor?" Espio said, shocked by the news.
"Yeah I taught Honey how to fight when she was just a small kitten and I made her red dress that she wears. Me and Honey are childhood friends! We go way back." She said.
"Oh no wonder you have the same dress as Honey's." Charmy said, examining the human girl's dress.
"That's right young bee. My name is Candy! I run this company for I'm the CEO of the Candy Clothing Company. The CCC for short." Candy said, introducing herself. "Please everybody come on in, make yourself at home. We have much to discuss."
Candy went back to her seat and pressed a button on her intercom next to her. Everybody in Team Chaotix found themselves a seat to sit, except Mighty who was stopped by Candy.
"Mighty, wait! I got a special chair for you to sit on." Candy said.
"Special chair?" Mighty said, Confused.
"Bring me the special chair for one of my guest in my office ASAP!" Candy yelled, taking her finger off the button.
Out from Candy's office door, came in two large buff men in suits, carrying a large comfortable massage chair. Mighty was stun when the two large men picked him up with their hands.
"Hey! What are you guys doing?!" Mighty protested.
Mighty was then placed on the chair softly. Candy giggled seeing the surprise face on Mighty.
"What's going on?!" Mighty asked.
Candy smiled, "Relax, you'll enjoy this." She said as she face one of her guards and gave a command, "Flip the switch."
At this, the man in black turn on a switch on the massage chair and began to vibrate. Mighty was gonna say something, but was at a lost of words as he was lost in the comfort of the massage chair that he kept looking up at the ceiling.
"Hey! How come Mighty gets to sit on a massage chair! Why don't we!" Charmy said, a bit upset.
"Because Mighty makes my little Honey happy. Anybody that makes my little Honey happy in her life gets special treats from me." Candy stated.
"Charmy, calm down. It's not a big deal anyway. Let Mighty have his fun." Ray said, trying to calm down the young bee.
"Yes, besides, we're here for a job. Not for a vacation." Vector said. "Still, I wish I had a massage chair to sit on."
Espio looked at Candy. "Speaking of the job. How is it that a rich billionaire such as yourself know us?" He asked.
"Why, by Honey of course." Candy said, as stood up from her desk and looked at each member of Team Chaotix. "When Honey was here in Armstone City for the Fighting Viper tournament. She told me all about you guys, especially Mighty since she talks a lot about him." She said, looking at the relaxed armadillo.
"Honey said you guys are the perfect group of detectives to solve any case or problems. She recommended me to you guys if I need help." Candy said, with a beaming smile.
"Honey also told me you guys are always in debt of paying rent of your headquarter. Is she right?" Candy asked.
"Well, Honey is right on that." Espio answered, shamefully
"Sweet, Honey put in a good word for us." Ray said, thanking the yellow cat.
"Great! Let's get down to business, miss…." Vector was interrupted by Candy.
"Oh please, you can call me Candy. I really don't like all that formal stuff." Candy smiled. "I have yet to get the rest of your names besides Mighty's of course."
Everybody except Mighty, who was too relax to even talk, nodded their heads as they properly introduce themselves to Honey's childhood friend.
"I'm Vector!"
"I'm Espio."
"I'm Charmy!"
"And I'm Ray!"
Vector shot a cocky smile, "We are Team Chaotix and the leader of the group."
Candy clapped her hand, "Wonderful! Now then, let's discuss your job for me as well as your payment." She said, sitting back to her desk.
"What's the issue?" Espio said, curious about the job.
"Please Espio, let me do the talking here." Vector said to the chameleon, who just rolled his eyes at him. "What's the issue, Candy?"
"Recently, I have ordered the four most expensive and best fabric from different parts of the world." Candy said, laying out a list for Team Chaotix to scan through.
"The first being the vucana wool, wool of a vucana sheep from Peru." Candy said, showing a picture of a vucana sheep on a small tablet of hers to the gang.
"Wow, this sheep must be famous from where he's from." Ray said.
"I bet this sheep must attract all the women at his home if they use his wool. Probably more than Vector." Charmy teased.
'Why you!" Vector angry, as he tried to reach for the young bee.
"Okay that's enough. Back off Vector." Espio said, holding back the crocodile from killing the young bee.
Candy just let a small laugh at the goofiness of the group of detectives.
"The second is silk." Candy said.
"Silk? How is silk expensive?" Ray asked.
"Not just any silk. Mulberry silk, it's the finest silk that exist in the world." Candy inform as she took out a small example of a sheet made of mulberry silk on her desk. "Touch it, it's the most softest thing you'll ever feel."
Everybody but Mighty took off one of their glove hands and felt the sheet made of mulberry silk. All of them felt the softness of the sheet as they ran their fingers through it. Charmy didn't want to let go of the silk for he became addicted to the softness, but was quickly swiped away from him by Candy.
"Sorry little bee, but that's the only sample of mulberry silk that I have left." Candy teased, putting away.
"Aw man, I was really enjoying feeling that." Said Charmy in a sad tone.
The next thing is fur from the most excotic animals." Candy said, taking out a fur scarf made that came from a leopard and wrapped it around her neck..
"Fur? As in fur from people like us? You take their fur away." Ray asked, giving a bit of worried face.
Candy giggle at Ray's worried face, "Don't worry Ray. I don't take these fur by force. The fur that comes from the animal happily volunteer to sell me their fur for my company. There is no harm to those animals." She said.
Ray sigh happily, "Phew, okay. That's good to know." He said, happy by the news.
"Finally there's linen. Linen is a preferred fabric because it is moth resistant, light and dry easily." Candy said.
"That's gotta be some fabric if it's moth resistant and I know a few moth kids at my school. There always so gloomy, dull, and wear nothing but black clothing." Charmy said.
"For the past few weeks. These expensive fabric have been going missing and from their shipment. Somebody or something is taking them away from me. I need these fabrics in order to make my latest fashion design." Candy faced Team Chaotix.
"That's where you guys come in. I need you to find out who or what is causing all this and put a stop to it. Do you guys accept the job?" She said.
"We accept the job." Espio agree.
"Do you have any leadings to where we may start from." Vector said.
Candy nodded, "Luckily for you guys I order a new shipment of new fabric. Only this time this shipment won't contain any fabric. It will contain you guys instead."
"I see, so you want us to do the old Trojan horse trick to infiltrate who's taking the fabric." Espio said.
"That's right, but you guys need to head to Central City first. That's where the shipment first comes from before coming here to Armstone City." Candy said. "Once you stop these fabric stealing thieves. You will be awarded for your job handsomely."
"How much money are we talking here?" Vector said, shooting a smirk.
Candy shot her own smirk at Vector and randomly pulled a large bag of money on her desk for Vector and the gang to witness themselves.
"Voila!" Candy yelled proudly.
"Woah!" Everybody in Team Chaotix shouted, amazed by the amount of cash that lay in front of them in glory.
"It think this is enough to get you all motivated to get the job done." Candy said, with a sly smirk.
"Consider the job done. Just leave the rest to us." Vector said, proudly.
"I have a shipment team waiting to put you guys in a cargo of fabric over at Central City. I'll have one of my limousine drivers take you guys there. It is a 30 minute drive after all." Candy said, picking up her office phone.
"We won't fail you Candy. We'll get the job done, no sweat." Ray gave a thumbs up to the fashion designer.
Candy smiled, "A limousine driver should be waiting for you guys outside the building."
"We're on our way. Don't worry, we'll stop whoever is taking your fabrics." Espio said.
"Yeah, especially since I could buy a large amount of honey with that money." Charmy said.
"Mighty, did you get every word on what we just said?" Ray asked the relaxed armadillo.
"Oh yeahhh." Mighty said, in a chill tone.
"Okay that's enough time on the massage chair. We got a job to do." Vector said, picking the less stress armadillo off from the massage chair. "Quick! To the Vector mobile!" He shouted as he ran out the door while carrying Mighty on his shoulder.
"He's seems to be in a hurry to get the job done." Candy scratched her head.
"Pardon his behavior, but Vector has a blind date later tonight. He hasn't had a date in five years you see." Ray gave Candy some info about Vector's love life.
"Oh I see, don't wanna make him late for his date then. You should get going now." Candy said.
"It's rare that Vector got a date for it seems like women hate him." Charmy stated.
"Why do women hate him?" Candy asked.
Ray nodded his head, "I don't know, they just do. They just do." He said, as he and everybody began to leave.
Candy waved goodbye, "Good luck you guys and come back safe with the fabric problem solved. Especially you Mighty! I hate to tell Honey that something bad happen to her future husband!" She said to the armadillo as everybody began to leave her office to do their job.
End of Chapter 1